Announcing Dominion 1.06beta

From: rosalia@dirac.physics.sunsyb.edu (Mark Galassi)

Date: Mon, 20 Jan 1992 16:34:40 +0000

[ This will be followed by a posting of the README file for Dominion ]

Announcement of Dominion version 1.06beta
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Dominion is a multi-player world simulation game.  Each user is the
leader of a nation, and makes decisions for that nation.  The
decisions are political, military, diplomatic and economic, and all
these are extremely important for the well-being of a nation.  The
game is not real-time: a user plays her/his turn and then an update is
run periodically to incorporate changes of all players.

Dominion has features from both fantasy role-playing games, educational
games, and war games: a user needs to develop a character as leader of
a nation, keep a healty economy, and can then develop a strong
military force using magic or technology.

Dominion was developed at SUNY at Stony Brook by a group of students
in Physics, Computer Science and other departments, in the
spring/summer of 1990.  It is under the Free Software Foundation
Copyright (GNU General Public Licence).  It has beta tested in several
games at Stony Brook and in many other places throughout the world.

Dominion has been tested on several versions of UNIX: System V.2
(Ridge and UNIX PC), HPUX (HP 3000 and 9000 series), System V.3 (MIPS
and SGI), System V.4 (386 boxes), SCO Xenix system V (386 boxes), Sun
OS 4.1 (sun sparcstation), ULTRIX (vax, DEC 5000), mach (NeXT), AIX
(IBM RS6000).  A previous version was ported to the amiga, though the
port would have to be redone from scratch now.

Dominion was originally inspired by Conquer, a very creative game written
by Ed Barlow and Adam Bryant, though it has diverged a lot.

Version 1.06beta of Dominion is available by anonymous ftp from
	max.physics.sunysb.edu [129.49.21.100]
in
	~ftp/pub/dominion-1.06beta
There are about 17 compressed shell archive files.

The documentation is written in LaTeXinfo.  If you don't have the
latexinfo.sty and tabular.sty files needed to run latex, you can
ftp the files
	dominion.dvi.Z
and
	dominion.PS.Z
from the same directory.

One last note: we are currently working on a simple network model for
the game which would allow a game master to run a game and accept
client connections from people on other machines.  This way one can
run a game without giving accounts to lots of people on ones own
machine.
--
    {These opinions are mine, and should be everybody else's :-)}
	Mark Galassi		rosalia@dirac.physics.sunysb.edu
				rosalia@sunysbnp.BITNET